Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They live in a military compound.
But while he's there, working at the factory, Deng Xiaoping has plenty of time to think about his country, about what had gone wrong with many of Mao's policies, about what might be possible.
His thoughts start to cohere into one main idea.
Could there be a way to loosen China up to the outside world economically, but also retain the structure of a communist party?
By 1973, Deng was summoned back to Beijing.
Another official with a good relationship to Deng convinces Mao to let him return.
Deng rises in the ranks, becoming Mao's third-in-command.
He's brought back to initiate pragmatic reform, organization, and essentially do the cleaning up of the destruction caused by the Cultural Revolution.
But then, September 1976, Mao Zedong dies.
The power structure in China, as it had existed in the Maoist era, totally collapsed.
There was a period of chaotic power struggles as members of the party tried to claim control.
But when the dust finally settled, Deng remained.
A radically new economy.
One opening itself up to science, technology, business, and new big ideas from all over the world.
It didn't matter what its political system was.
The trick here for Deng was to develop a political system that could fit the unique needs of China at this moment.
In complete disarray.
Diverse.
Very poor.
But a nation with a deep cultural history.
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